The love story of a young girl and a vampire described in Stephanie Meyer's book “Twilight” in 2005 made a splash. Already in the first week, a circulation of 100,000 copies was sold only in the United States, providing the novel with the status of a bestseller. The film adaptation of such a successful work was a matter of time ...

In 1980, the film "The Adventure of Electronics" was shot at the Odessa film studio based on the book of the same name by Evgeny Voltistov. The film also featured venerable actors, and unknown boys and girls who woke up famous after the premiere of the film. Decades flowed. Not everything is definitely good ...

Some celebrities, whose names are well-known today, began their career in show business with participation in the television project Dom-2. Filming in it helped them become quite successful personalities, someone sings and gives tours throughout the country, someone became a TV presenter or actress, and someone became a socialite....

The series "Soldiers" was broadcast in 2004 and immediately became a hit. A huge audience gathered at the screens, and the jokes of the heroes of the show quickly became popular. Papazoglo, Vakutagin, Sokolov, Medvedev - everyone followed the lives of these guys. For 10 years, 557 episodes were shot without spin-offs, but the best and the most ...

Everyone knows that "there was no sex in the USSR, there was love." Physical proximity in those days was something indecent, it was not customary to talk about it. It is not surprising that unconventional relations for Soviet people were at all something of a kind of fiction. Here are just some facts ...

Keira Knightley is a famous British actress, twice nominated for an Academy Award. She plunged into the acting sphere from an early age and quickly became a favorite of viewers. For the love of historical reincarnation, the press and the British public at one time dubbed the girl "shining ...

“Star Factory” is a well-known television project, associated not only with new musical talents, but also with various intrigues and scandals. Many young talents tend to gain popularity with the help of not only musical abilities, but also the creation of hype around their person. However ...

Author's (bardic) songs are an important part of the cultural life of the Soviet Union. This genre is absolutely unique: it is far from the everyday life of a big city and is at the same time close to human souls. Such songs have become a form of communication of like-minded people, an alternative culture. Bard is ...

Female vocals in rock music is quite controversial, as some are delighted with it, while others do not allow it to be in the male, in their opinion, genre. Nevertheless, the frenzied popularity of groups with girls at the microphone proves that female vocals have a right to exist, especially ...

One of the key figures in Russian realism was Ilya Efimovich Repin. You may not be far from the world of fine art, but you could not hear about such paintings as “Barge Haulers on the Volga” or “Didn't Wait”. This world famous artist was able to use painting to touch on topics that ...

The appearance of most people varies greatly with age and they become completely unlike themselves in their youth. This problem is especially acute for actors for whom the face and figure are a “working tool”. Some have to change their roles over the years, while others manage to ...

The melodrama "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" is rightfully considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Soviet cinema. Director Vladimir Menshov made a sincere film understandable to each viewer. In the USSR, 90 million people watched him, which allowed him to become the second rental leader in history after Pirates ...

Recently, no one is surprised at such phenomena as bisexuality, lesbianism or homosexuality. That's just the majority of people regard this as something far away. Everyone thinks: “It can happen to anyone, but not in my family.” Celebrities are no exception....

The 90s gave us so many cult songs that this decade is rightly considered one of the most important in the history of music. If we talk about rock and metal, in the 90s literally everything was noted by cool releases: Guano Apes, Limp Bizkit, Green Day, Manowar, Nightwish, Iron Maiden and dozens ...

The cult fantasy trilogy of Peter Jackson acquired such a status absolutely deservedly: in 2001, when the first part was released, it became the main event of the year. In technical terms, not a single film could even get close to what Jackson showed on the screen, and commercial success made rich ...

Despite the importance of the musical accompaniment and the lyrics, the voice is often crucial in rock. A strong vocalist is able to “pull out” even a weak song, making it a real “sweetie”. There are surprisingly many talented performers, but many of them sound, if not the same, ...

Viewers are used to thinking that celebrities earn a lot of money, so they spend it as they please, buying chic houses, villas on the beach or the ocean, clothes from world famous brands, luxury cosmetics or replenishing private collections with priceless art exhibits. On the ...

Every day we are under the influence and pressure of the principles adopted in society. The environment discusses (and condemns) who is dressed, who is dating, who is doing what, and so on. Every area of ​​our everyday life is under the scrutiny of familiar and casual personalities. Imagine ...

Many women during pregnancy gain a considerable amount of extra pounds. It is not so easy to get rid of them after childbirth, a small child requires a lot of attention, so a newly-made mother sometimes just has no time to go to the gym or monitor proper nutrition. More often than women ...

Unfortunately, no one is safe from the appearance of a disabled person in the family. It is equally difficult to prepare for situations in which a family member becomes suddenly disabled, or when a child is immediately born inferior. The primary task of parents in such a situation is to make the baby understand that his ...